Flight stockings significantly reduce DVT risk, says research review
...n't wear graduated compression stockings when they fly are more than 12 times more likely to develop Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) than those who do, according to a research review published in the latest Journal of Advanced Nursing. Researchers analysed the results of nine comparative trials carried out in...Three deadly parasite genomes sequenced
... causes sleeping sickness, is spread by the tsetse fly and is found in sub-Saharan Africa. The World Health Organization estimates there may be as many as 500,000 cases of sleeping sickness each year. If left untreated, sleeping sickness is fatal. Various forms of leishmaniasis are spread by the sandfly ...Breath of the dragon: ERS-2 and Envisat reveal impact of economic growth on China's air quality
...that the two instruments were originally chosen to fly because of their ability to measure stratospheric ozone, but were also selected in order to investigate the amount of useful information that could be retrieved from the troposphere. "The instruments are now being used to monitor a significant numbe...CryoSat launch will be blast from the Cold War past
...ussian government that the Rockots will be good to fly until at least 2015, and envisage that could be prolonged to 2020 or later." Meanwhile new Breeze-KM upper stages are built at Khrunichev's same plant, and shipped the 800 kilometres up to Plesetsk separately from the SS-19 and the satellite payload...Expert dispels bird flu paranoia
...oea, convulsions, head arched backwards, unable to fly or walk properly, facial and comb swelling and mouth and comb turning blue and report any worries to your local government biosecurity officer. Don't eat raw or undercooked chicken. Don't use untreated water, use clean town water or bore water. ...MSG-2 will advance long-term monitoring of Earth's energy balance
...nterest in these unique data." The intention is to fly a GERB on all four MSG satellites, to continue monitoring of the Earth Radiation Budget for at least a decade and a half and identify any long-term trends. In the average 24-hour day the Sun shines out radiation equivalent to 1.37 kilowatts per squa...Darkness more than triples EMS helicopter crash fatality risk
...ccurred when weather conditions required pilots to fly primarily by referencing their instruments rather than using outside visual cues. In darkness, 56 percent of crashes were fatal, as compared with 24 percent of crashes not in darkness. One in four EMS helicopters is likely to crash during 15 years of...Yale expands research using magnetic stimulation for schizophrenia
...esearch to include 90 patients. There are funds to fly patients to New Haven, where they will stay on a research unit during the five-to-eight week period that they are in the clinical trial. TMS generally is painless and is experienced as a knocking sensation. It is administered while persons are awake ...World Water Day: Space tool aids fight for clean drinking water
...an anomaly in the Russian launcher, CryoSat-2 will fly an enhanced radar altimeter instrument, called the Synthetic Aperture Interferometric Radar Altimeter (SIRAL) which will allow it to improve the resolution of the measurements by increasing the number of separate radar pulses it sends down to Earth e...There's more than meets the eye to catching a fly ball in the outfield
DURHAM, N.H. -- It looks so simple catching a fly ball. But of all of the balls hit into the outfiel...d says there's more than meets the eye to catching fly balls and hitting pitches for the boys of summer. "An outfielder is computing a collision course bet...MetOp satellite shipped to Baikonur on 18 April
... global weather data until 2020. MetOp, which will fly at a height of about 837 km, promises, with its 12 sophisticated instruments, to provide data of unprecedented accuracy, thus improving global weather forecasting and providing enhanced climate monitoring capabilities....Serotonin, acting in a specific brain region, promotes sleep in fruit flies
...r sleep research. The simple nervous system of the fly enables researchers to ask basic questions about s...the more complicated mammalian systems. Using the fly model in their new study, the researchers showed that pharmacological treatment with serotonin incre...New fruit fly protein illuminates circadian response to light
...y from one time zone to another. A mutant fruit fly that possesses jetlag-like behaviors enabled senio...e clock cells in the jetlag flies. When a fruit fly is exposed to light, a photoreceptor called cryptochrome (CRY) transduces the light signal and kicks...Women still get lower-quality heart attack care than men, despite hospital improvement efforts
...men. But Eagle notes that the results of the study fly in the face of perceptions about older women and treatment benefits; even the older women in the study had a much lower risk of dying after hospitalization if they had received high-quality treatment and a pre-discharge counseling session. Previou...Digital surgery with touch feedback could improve medical training
...oach to training surgeons, much as pilots learn to fly on flight simulators. With collaborators at Harvard Medical School, Albany Medical Center, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the team is developing a virtual simulator that will allow surgeons to touch, feel, and manipulate computer-gene...Europe's first polar-orbiting weather satellite ready for launch
...stration (NOAA), so that MetOp and NOAA satellites fly in complementary orbits to maximise the coverage area over which observations are made. MetOp is Europe's first polar-orbiting satellite dedicated to operational meteorology and with its array of sophisticated instruments, this weather satellite pro......o-charge ratio. The time it takes the fragments to fly to the detector depends on their masses. The quadrupole may be used to fragment the molecules before they enter the TOF part. The instrument generates a spectrum of fragments that is characteristic of the original molecule and identifies it. The cru...'Tribbles' protein implicated in common and aggressive form of leukemia
...others off. Pear and colleagues knew from fruit fly studies that the Tribbles protein was linked to cell growth and cell-fate determination and is closely related to the Tribbles gene in mammals. In fact, Tribbles is so named because, when mutated in flies, it causes cells to proliferate uncontrollabl...ESA's first Swedish astronaut to fly to the ISS
... flight STS-116. With his six crewmates, he will fly to the International Space Station on a mission to...his will be the first time that two ESA astronauts fly together on the same ISS mission. Both will return to Earth onboard Discovery at the end of its 12-d...... a common test drug Ediger refers to as "the fruit fly of the drug industry." Encouraged by their results, the group plans to test more materials in the search for additional applications....